Example sentences of "[noun sg] proved [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accommodationist vote proved to be largely imaginary , and radical new candidates swept away most of the old guard , to become mayors of most of the West Bank 's towns . |
| 2 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 3 | This early collaboration with the adviser Proved to be mutually beneficial as it was an attempt by the adviser to persuade schools to place microcomputers away from the maths or physics department and helped in the school library service policy of validating the links between the school library and information technology . |
| 4 | The discovery well a mile away had tested at only 9.7 million cu ft/day ( 275 thousand cu m/day ) , and this result proved to be significantly higher than most later discoveries . |
| 5 | The Parliamentary elections of the spring proved to be bitterly contentious , and were fought largely on the old party lines , centring around the issues of Dissent and/or loyalty to the new regime . |
| 6 | The Association proved to be more resilient than the defunct N.D.D.S. although it led a precarious existence for a number of years before becoming established . |
| 7 | The exercise proved to be extremely complex and time-consuming because of the sheer volume of material involved ( ie in excess of 60,000 files ) , and the variety of different reference systems used . |
| 8 | The Regional Committees have reported that the presence of a top visiting senior coach proved to be particularly beneficial for the youngsters . |
| 9 | The position of Recorder took a minimum of four weeks per year but the work proved to be more satisfying than her work as a solicitor . |
| 10 | The evening proved to be extremely busy , and Juliet found it impossible to slip up to Hunter again . |
| 11 | In fact , its membership proved to be highly stable . |
| 12 | Contrary to popular misconception , Britain received more than any other Western European country , yet its subsequent economic record proved to be less impressive . |
| 13 | But this aim proved to be too large and the northern comprehensive school , as it were , took over my interests . |
| 14 | To Meryl 's vexation , the boundary wall proved to be nearly eight feet high . |
| 15 | This radical change of emphasis proved to be extremely unpopular with doctors both in primary care and the hospital service . |
| 16 | Trying to arrange a temporary nanny proved to be as useless as their hunt for an electrician . |
| 17 | The manager proved to be very co-operative , and Thornton and Higgs were shown the machines which processed the dolphin meat into round slabs of meal , and a huge open vat of dolphin oil . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , the government proved to be surprisingly cautious . |
| 19 | The chamber proved to be very long . |
| 20 | The rule-based approach proved to be too unwieldy and fragile to be of practical use given the current state of computer hardware and linguistic theories . |
| 21 | Even so , the competition proved to be extremely tight . |
| 22 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |
| 23 | Because the stone-built , partly render-clad building proved to be extremely sound , little alteration to the exterior or renewal of materials was necessary . |
| 24 | The evening at the cinema proved to be rather successful . |
| 25 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 26 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 27 | However , the task of transferring the knowledge base from the older to the new version proved to be more onerous than expected . |
| 28 | LAST YEAR proved to be very busy for the Safety Department with numerous new unit openings and many legislative changes to be applied . |
| 29 | With its sumptuous furnishings , the playhouse proved to be very popular with George III and his family , and a description of their visits is given by Charles Knight [ q.v. ] in A Volume of Varieties ( 1844 ) . |
| 30 | The expiry of the Licensing Act in 1695 led to a massive output of printed propaganda , in the form of pamphlets , broadsides and newspapers , and the press proved to be highly partisan in nature . |